(v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
(v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
(v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
(n.) A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
(n.) The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
(v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
(n.) The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
(n.) Alt. of Bangue
Example Sentences:
(1) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(2) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
(3) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(4) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
(5) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
(7) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
(8) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
(9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
(10) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
(11) The answer is not to be found at either financial extreme, but bang in the economic centre, where elections are won and lost.
(12) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
(13) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
(14) • Drinks about £12, Hornsgatan 82, Open Mon-Sat from 5pm, haktet.se Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest HTL HTL HTL is a new and affordable boutique hotel and a perfect choice if location – it’s bang in the city centre – is more important to you than space.
(15) 5.38am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th Bang....just one bang.
(16) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
(17) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trading floor of the London Stock Exchange as the Big Bang reforms took effect in 1986.
(19) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
(20) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
(1) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(2) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(3) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
(4) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
(5) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
(6) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
(7) A newer technique, ausculatory percussion, has been reported as having a far higher sensitivity.
(8) Sheep fail to demonstrate changes in any of these variables after severe percussive wave brain trauma.
(9) Beneficial effects for opiate receptor antagonists have also been observed after fluid percussion head injury in cats.
(10) The chi-square results indicated that the peptostreptococcus were significantly related to apical radiolucency and B. melaninogenicus were significantly related to percussion or foul smell.
(11) These data demonstrate that fluid percussion injury in the rat reproduces many of the features of head injury observed in other models and species.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SprungDigi crew member creating percussion sounds for MusicMix.
(13) The subcutaneous thickening, the tenderness on compression and percussion of the hypothenar eminence or Raynaud's phenomenon of the last fingers should arise the suspicion of this syndrome, which will be confirmed by a positive Allen's test, Doppler examination or digitalized angiography.
(14) Bladder percussion produced contraction of the wall of the bladder and this was regularly associated with increased arterial mean and pulse pressures, a decreased heart rate and calf and hand blood flow, and venoconstriction.
(15) 10 out of 26 cases of pneumothorax could be suspected by percussion dullness.
(16) 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to determine the intracellular free Mg2+ concentration prior to and following fluid percussion induced traumatic brain injury in rats.
(17) This model employs the same fluid percussion device commonly used in in vivo brain injury studies.
(18) The fluid percussion device was attached over the right parietal cortex and a moderate (2.0 atm) intensity injury was produced.
(19) Neurological examinations revealed that she had facial diplegia, inverted V-shaped mouth, high-arched palate, talipes equinus, percussion myotonia of the tongue, generalized muscular atrophy and weakness, lordosis, areflexia, and congenital cataracta.
(20) The visco-elastic properties of a healthy tooth enabling the percussion of the Periotest tapping head to be decelerated in less than 1 ms are largely lost in periodontitis.